isnt that celebrating canabalism?
should we allow children to participate in rituals that celebrate eating and drinking blood?
Why do we allow such atracities in our catholic churches?
2006-11-13 23:53:55 · 12 answers · asked by samanthakhz 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Communion (Symbolic Cannibalism) is a barbaric practice created so that the participant gets the feeling that this made-up god/human hybrid creature can actually enter you and become part of you physically as well as entering the made-up spiritual side they invented to control you. It is all rubbish, there are no gods or god/human hybrids.
2006-11-14 01:33:26 · answer #1 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, I certainly hope you don't actually believe that we carve some poor guy up every mass. Even you must realize how stupid that sounds.
We don't physically eat the body and blood of anyone! It's a wafer and wine. Once touched by the Holy Spirit, it is transformed spiritually. Physically, it's still an unleaven peice of bread and watered down wine, still tastes like unleaven bread and watered down wine, but it feeds the soul more then body.
Jesus, at the last supper, held up bread and said, "Do this in membrance of me, THis is my body which will be given unto you. " And he took wine and said, "This is my blood, which will shed for you and for all, so that sins may be forgiven. Do this in membrance of me."
We do not (and let me repeat that in case you didn't get it the first time) DO NOT actually eat another human being! That is a filthy lie!
2006-11-14 08:12:41 · answer #2 · answered by sister steph 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic Church does have a twisted view of the Lord's Supper. They call it "Transubstantiation" and say that the wine and bread LITERALLY BECOME the body and blood of Jesus. Sounds too bizarre to be true but it is official Catholic dogma.
Orthodox Christians, however, realize that the bread and wine/grape juice are merely symbols of Christ's body and blood which was sacrificed for the sins of His people. The Lord's supper is a memorial service of what our King has done for us and reminds us that our sin is so vile that God Himself had to hang on a cross to pay the penalty. Had Jesus not died for His people, we would all have to pay for our own sin in hell for eternity.
2006-11-14 08:05:57 · answer #3 · answered by 5solas 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Transubstantiation is neither canibalism nor vampirism. It is a way of sharing the Spiritual body not physical of Jesus via bread and wine he used flesh and blood as tangible terms that ordinary people would understand. It is just a way explaning that he is giving us part of the nature of God as a special gift not actually flesh eating and blood drinking!!
2006-11-14 08:02:24 · answer #4 · answered by Andielep 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. Jesus was not saying his followers should drink his blood literally. That would have been a violation of the Mosaic Law that prohibited the misuse of blood. Jesus was speaking figuratively. Instead of waiting around for an explanation, many of Jesus' followers abandoned him. His true disciples may not have understood Jesus either, but they remained with him so he could explain himself to them at a later time.
2006-11-14 07:57:30 · answer #5 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
WE ARE NOT EATING JESUS BODY! Jesus told us to do this in remembrance of Him. When the priest consecrates the bread and wine, Jesus makes Himself known into them and when we consume them, Jesus literally enters our physical bodies. He are not rekilling Him and eating His physical human body. The bread and wine are still bread and wine in substance but the blessing of consecration allows Jesus to enter into these substances and becomes part of them. Jesus allows this to happen because He told the apostles to do this to remember His last supper and His passion and His death. It's called transubstantiation. Before you lay down words about a subject you know nothing about, read about it. Talk to a priest and witness it. Us Catholics aren't rekilling Christ, we are not eating Christ, we are physically putting Him into our bodies the way He told the apostles to. And by receiving Holy Communion, our venial sins are forgiven if we believe in Him and this Holy Sacrament that He gave to us.
2006-11-14 08:07:28 · answer #6 · answered by cartman 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You are not really eating the body and blood. You are eating a wafer and grape juice. As why the catholic think it is well you need to ask them.
2006-11-14 07:57:23 · answer #7 · answered by Kenneth G 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Catholics think that way, Protestants don't. I believe that when Jesus offered the elements, that they represented His body. After all He was alive and served them. The Bible didn't say he harmed His body to do this. He also said ".. do this in remembrance of Me..". Again meaning representing.
2006-11-14 08:02:38 · answer #8 · answered by RB 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's symbolism. Not Pagan rituals. Satan wants you to be confused on that issue. Confusion brings doubt. Doubt brings loss of faith and hope. Loss of faith and hope brings sin, pain, and suffering. Sin, pain and suffering turns people away from God. Mission accomplished by Satan.
2006-11-14 08:18:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because in John 6, Jesus tells us that consuming His body and blood is a requirement, if we want to be in union with Him on this earth and in the next life.
The "cannibalism" thing is a stretch, no offense.
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2006-11-14 07:57:24 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋